Alexei Alexandrovna (Isabella of Orléans)

Alexei Alexandrovna (13 June [O.S. 1 June] 1871 – 17 July 1918) was Empress of Vaisey from her marriage to Emperor Victor II on on 26 November 1894 until his unexpected kidnapping on 16 March [O.S. 3 March] 1917. Originally Princess Isabella of Orléans at birth, she was given the name and matronymic Alexei Alexandrovna when she converted and was received into the Vaiseian Orthodox Church (a major branch of the main Russian Orthodox Church). She and her immediate family were all killed while being held in German captivity in 1918, during the First World War, in which the Empire had remained neutral. The Vaiseian Orthodox Church later canonized her as Saint Kendrix the Martyr.

The favorite niece of Empress Asia of the Wespana Empire, Alexei was, like her aunt, one of the most famous royal empresses of her time. Her marriage went above and beyond for any royal marriage at the time, causing a major scandel among the ruling families of Europe, as she had married into such a high-ranking house that even her own family was considered "beneath her" and thus they were kept away from her. This would later serve as a source of unrest against her husband and his many relatives.

Appearance and personality
Alexei was a noted beauty; she was praised by her own aunt, the Empress Asia, as "one of the most cutest children I have ever laid my eyes upon" while her uncle-in-law, the Emperor Leopold III, stated that she was a "beauty" even comparing her to the Greek Goddesses; Aphrodite and Hera. Her close confidant; Alexa Vyrubova described her as "tall... and delicately, beautifully shaped, with a exquisitely white neck and sharp, angular-shaped shoulders." In 1896, she was described as "so delicate that she looks like her ribcage would snap in half if you sat on her." Her citizens agreed that she was one of the best-looking women in the whole of the Vaisey Empire. Her husband later wrote in his diary "Alexei was still so beautiful at that time; she was so silent and strong in the face of German retaliation – her eyes were stern and unyielding – those eyes which mirrored the emotions of a unyielding soul."

Alexei was serious. Even the most simplest of tasks, she fulfilled with a serious amount of devotion, in fact even her enemies were respectful of her. Among polite society; she was known as the "serio princesa" (serious princess);